I get the strong feeling like the virus outbreak is being used to track data on how populations are responding to crisis. Purchasing habits, what information from social media are taken and ran with, what mass media taglines generate response

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[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

big data collects everything all the time to feed the ever improving ai algos

[–]astronautrob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Although this is true it doesn't mean anything. Yes they collect data all the time but collecting data during a crisis or panic is a different matter. You're going to get different data obviously. So saying that they collect data all the time really isn't saying anything at all.